William Regal believes trying to be the best in the world is subjective.
In an interview with Alistair McGeorge of Metro, Regal cautioned other wrestlers against obsessing over the quest to be the best wrestler in the world. He noted that he has seen others go to the grave because they put too much pressure on themselves in this regard.
“It’s not a knock on anybody trying to be the best wrestler in the world, I just don’t want them to eat their lives up, fixate on it. I’ve seen it put some of my friends in the grave. That’s not an exaggeration. Some of my friends have gone to the grave because they have been trying to live up to too much, because they put so much pressure on themselves to be somebody you can never be. There’s always gonna be at least one person will disagree – even if they don’t disagree – just to disagree. If you listen to too much of it, it’s gonna send you off the deep end,”
“I’m gonna offend people if I say this because there’s no such thing – there never was, there never will be – as a best wrestler in the world, because it is subjective. If one person thinks you are not – I know there’s a lot of young lads at the moment wanna claim that and think that. I hope they’re not driving themselves mad with it. I have seen some of my friends drive themselves to the edge of not good things trying to be the best wrestler in the world, and unfortunately there’s always somebody who’s gonna critique you,”
“Just be as good as you can be, because somebody is always gonna say you’re not what you are. It might offend you, and that headspace, it’ll take up time as you’re trying to get mad at them or worry about some non-entity saying that you aren’t the best. You could be working on actually getting better at being a wrestler,”
William Regal to Metro
During Tuesday Night’s AEW Dynamite, Regal had an incredible segment with MJF that the wrestling world is still talking about. This segment would lead to MJF announcing he would face Jon Moxley at AEW Full Gear next month.
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